by Coleridge · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
Short lyric epigram declaring that mutual love is a second birth from which life should be counted. Themes of romantic love and spiritual renewal.
Connections
Motifs: Light and Dark Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Grace and Redemption, Joy Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
There are two births, the one when Light
First strikes the new-awaken’d sense —
The other when two souls unite,
And we must count our life from then.
When you lov’d me, and I lov’d you, 5
Then both of us were born anew.
? 1801.